Hiding selected sections in Word Document based on string search

Question

I have very little experience of using Visual Basic with MS Word.

I have a Word document and I wish to write a macro that will hide certain sections of the document depending on the result of a search of the section title. The section title always has a style Heading 4.

The main problem I am having is how to select individula lines in the document. My initial thoughts are to perform this task using the following steps:

Select the first line in the document.
If line style is Heading 4
   Search for string within line
   If string is not present
      Select all lines until end of section
      Hide selected lines
   End if
End if

This will be repeated for the entire document.

I am specifically looking for guidance on how to get the macro to select individual lines in the document and also on how to loop through the document as a whole.

If there are any suggestions of an easier way to accomplish this task then they are also very welcome.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,

Sorry but you are in the wrong forum

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For VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), Macros or Excel Questions you will get better support in the VBA Forums:

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